Major technological catastrophe in Hungary (18 photos) Bashny.Net

Late Monday night at the factory for the production of alumina Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt in the vicinity of the Hungarian city of Ajka, an explosion occurred, could not stand the dikes protecting the neighborhood from the thousands of tons of chemical waste - red mud. As a result, 700 thousand cubic meters of poisoned water rushed with great speed down the hill. On her way were three settlements: hundreds of homes, thousands of people. Toxic substances have already reached the local reservoirs. Now one of the major threats - the possibility of getting a poisonous water in major rivers, including the Danube. In this scenario, the environmental disaster could grow to an international scale.



In the aftermath of the accident involved about 500 police and military personnel, as well as six rescue teams. In an effort to eliminate the consequences of emergency in the river Martsal been pumped reagents, which are supposed to bind toxic waste and stop them from spreading.